Canterbury Mornings

Massey University has cancelled Don Brash's speaking event for security reasons, but the Vice-Chancellor says his views also concerned many staff members.Mr Brash was invited by the students' politics club to give a talk on the National Party at the Manawatu campus tomorrow.Writer and political commentator Rachel Poulain told Chris Lynch she is very concerned by this - it is a dangerous precedent to set.She says threats of violence are not the way you establish your rights, you don't express your right to free speech by violently suppressing the free speech of others, particularly on a university campus.